Officials booked for using substandard material in dam

Police today filed an FIR against 34 persons, including 25 government officials, for allegedly using inferior-quality material for constructing the Temghar dam here.
The move comes after the state's Water Resources Minister Girish Mahajan's recent comment that contractors and officials who constructed the gravity-based Temghar Dam in Pune, which had started developing leakages, would be taken to task.
"As per the instructions, a police case has been registered against 25 government officials, who were involved in the construction of the dam and nine officials from Srinivasa Construction Company and Progressive Construction, for allegedly using inferior material while constructing the dam," said Superintending Engineer of Pune Irrigation Circle, Ishwar Chaudhary.

"A case under sections 406 (criminal breach of trust), 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servant), 467 (forgery),468 (forgery for cheating), 471 (using forged document as genuine), 420 (cheating), 120B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC has been lodged," said officials from Paud police station.
"No arrests have been made yet and investigations are underway," they said.
The Temghar dam, is an earth-fill, gravity-based dam on the Mutha river near Mulshi in Pune district. It is one of the dams which supplies water to the Pune city.

Fears were raised about the possibility of a dam burst like the Panshet dam in Pune district in 1961.

Construction work on the Temghar dam began in 1997 and it was completed in 2012 at a cost of Rs 237 crore.
Temghar dam has a total storage capacity of 3.71 TMC.